Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,634 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Elaine Brown
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Elaine Brown (1943- )
Washington counties
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Emmett Hercules Holmes (1872-1948)
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William DeHart Hubbard (1903-1976)
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Austin Steward (1793-1869)

Explore Global African History

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery and the Irish”
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Malik Ambar (1548 -1627)
50 Cent CD in Russian
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The Afro-Beat in Russia: The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture, 1890-2002
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Aba Women’s Riots (November-December 1929)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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African Americans and Cuba’s First Experiment in Castro-Era Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
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African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era
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Uncle Tom Revisited: Rescuing the Real Character from the Caricature
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Thaddeus H. Spratlen: Scholar and Philanthropist Generating Economic Change in Black America

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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